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...last of the 647 oil-well fires ignited by the Iraqis was extinguished in November, months ahead of schedule. Kuwait is producing 500,000 bbl. of oil a day, well on the way to matching its prewar quota of 1.5 million bbl. Vast lakes of spilled petroleum remain to be drained from the desert sands, but the Kuwait Oil Co. is already pumping 35,000 bbl. daily from those lakes. The blackened skies over the city have cleared, and the air is cleansed of acrid smoke...
Particularly with blacks. "To wholesale integrate this town because 'by God we're going to integrate' is not fair," says businessman David Hartig Jr., who headed the petition drive against the plan. "This is simply a quota plan." Hartig is at pains to distance himself from the resident bigots, but says, "People who don't like a closed community like Dubuque can go elsewhere." He complains that the only reason the plan has survived is because business leaders are afraid to oppose it. "It's like McCarthyism," he says. "If you don't support affirmative-action plans, then...
...decades been hostile to civil rights legislation, was eight points behind Gantt three weeks before the election. Then he ran an 11th-hour TV ad showing the hands of a white man crumpling a rejection slip for a job that had been reserved for a "racial quota." Many Republicans as well as Democrats denounced the ad for inflaming racial animosity. But it worked: Helms came from behind...
...fear he could peel away Republican votes as a third-party candidate in the general election, as Wallace did to the Democrats in 1968 and 1972. If Duke runs, he will surely attack Bush for signing a civil rights bill little different from the one he vetoed as a "quota bill...
...began officially electing candidates to the council. Wolf and Sullivan, whose spots were guaranteed on the strength of their no. 1 votes alone, were elected to cheers from family and friends Friday evening. CCA Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 received enough of Wolf's surplus votes to reach the quota that night...